From Financiers To Fashionistas: 3 Wall Street Pros Harbor Couture Aspirations

By day, Emily Slocum, Naj Alavi and Cynthia Williams might look like any other Wall Streeters riding the 4-train to work. But on evenings and weekends all three swap high finance for high fashion to pursue their entrepreneurial ambitions. On first glance, the disciplines of fashion and finance couldn’t seem further apart; the very symbols of the right-brain, left-brain divide. I asked them what it was about finance that drew them to fashion – and vice versa – how they balanced the commitme...